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Cincinnati Spotlight Weekend (10/11–10/13)

Posted on October 8, 2024


As part of the 2024 Biennial, FotoFocus features Participating Venues in Spotlight Weekends: Opportunities to visit multiple Venues within specific geographic locations where artists and curators are more likely to be on site for talks, tours, special events, and featured programming. This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant energy of the FotoFocus Biennial and map out a plan to get to as many Venues as possible.

Featured here: Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky; Friday, October 11 – Sunday, October 13, 2024


View the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Spotlight Itinerary as a PDF.

EVENTS THIS WEEKEND, OCTOBER 11 – 13, AT OUR CINCINNATI AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY VENUES

Archive of Creative Culture 
October 11, 6–8pm Video Projection and Potluck at 2800 & 2878 Sidney Ave
October 12, 1–2pm Artist Talk at 2930 Sidney Ave

Art Academy of Cincinnati: Chidlaw Gallery, McClure Gallery, and Pearlman Gallery
October 11, 5–7pm Gallery Reception and Tour with AAC Student Curators

ArtWorks (mural)
October 12, 5:30–7pm Artist Talk: Stories of the Past with Erika NJ Allen

ArtWorks V2 Gallery
October 12, 2:20–2:45pm Tour of the Chiaroscuro Exhibition

BasketShop
October 11, 7:30–8pm Artist Talk and Opening Reception for interior ruin

Behringer-Crawford Museum 
October 12, 2–4pm Artist Talk: Familiar Faces Fauxtos

Century Design Workshop
October 12, 2:45–3:10pm Gallery Tour

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library: Walnut Hills Library
October 12, 1:55–2:20pm Artist Talk & Curator Tour with MakeTank Inc.

Left: Mark S. Schlachter, Elmer & Heather—Good goetta makes good friends, 2019. Black and white photograph, 20¼ x 20¼ inches. Courtesy of the artist; Middle: Romain Mayambi, Sweet Dreams, 2022. Photograph, 2 x 3 inches. Courtesy of the artist; Right: Cody Perkins, Contested Ground, 2024. Inkjet Print, 30 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist

Cincinnati Museum Center 
October 12, 11:45am–12:30pm Gallery Tour of Lens of History

Cincy Nice at Peebles Gallery
October 12, 3:10–3:30pm Gallery Tour Led by Staff

Esquire Theatre Gallery 
October 13, 1–3pm Raw Material Artist Talks

Iris BookCafé and Gallery
October 12, 8:30–9:15am Gallery Talk with William Messer

Lloyd Library & Museum 
October 12, 3:45–4:15pm Gallery Tour of Madeleine Hordinski: Lore of the Pawpaw

Michael Lowe Gallery with Alternate Projects
October 12, 4:30–5:30pm Reception and Gallery Tour

Left: Madeleine Hordinski, Asimina triloba, August 10, 2023. Giclée print, 20 x 20 inches. Courtesy of the artist for the Lloyd Library & Museum; Middle: Kimball Derrick, Begonia, 2019. Digital print. Courtesy of the artist; Right: Casey LeClair, Moving Parts, 2018. Black and white photograph. Courtesy of the artist

Miller Gallery 
October 12, 1–3pm Reception and Artist Talk with Kimball Derrick

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Harriet Tubman Theatre)
October 12, 2–3pm Film Screening and Director and Curator Conversation 

Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts Galleries
October 12, 9:30–10:15am Gallery Tour with Matt Albritton

PAR-Projects: Gallery at Studeō PAR-
October 11, 6:30–9:30pm Don’t Just Talk About It, Be About It: A Panel Discussion with Omar Childress

Studio Kroner
October 12, 1–4pm Opening Reception for Casey LeClair: Moving Parts

Taft Museum of Art 
October 13, 10am–4pm Family Funday: Posing Beauty

Wash Park Art Gallery
October 12, 5:30–6pm Artist Talk: Ron Hoffman and Lydia Masset

Left: Rebecca Copper, Olentangy River, Spring 2023, 2023. 120 mm photograph, scan, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist; Middle: Viktor Maco, A Second Opportunity for Death, 2023. Digital print, 18 x 27 inches. Courtesy of the artist; Right: Omar Victor Diop, Jean-Baptiste Belley, 2014. Inkjet pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper. Courtesy of Galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris

Wave Pool
October 11, 7pm Artist Run Bus Tour (RSVP)
October 11, 8pm Artist Run Public Reception
October 11, 9pm Artist Run Bus Tour (RSVP)
October 12, 10:15–11:30am Curator’s Tour for A Thousand Words
October 12, 12–2:30pm Echoes of Support: A Healing Portrait Journey
October 12, 7pm Artist Run Bus Tour (RSVP)
October 12, 8pm Artist Run Public Reception
October 12, 9pm Artist Run Bus Tour (RSVP)

The Welcome Project 
October 12, 10:15–11:30am Defend the Sacred: Curator Talk with Viktor Maco

The Well
October 12, 2–4pm Sona and Soma: Community Photo Collage and Portraits

ALL CINCINNATI AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY PARTICIPATING VENUES

*Due to the abundance of venues in this region, they are grouped below according to their neighborhood. Please check regular venue hours before planning your visit.

DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI

21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati (609 Walnut St)
Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow and Spotlight: Felipe Rivas San Martín

Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery (650 Walnut St)
Rachael Banks: The Trail of the Dead and Memory Fields

Cincinnati Art Galleries (225 E 6th St, 1st Floor)
Verso: Backmarks of 19th-Century Photographic Card Mounts

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library: Main Branch (800 Vine St)
Depth of Field: The Universe of the Daguerreotype

Contemporary Arts Center (44 E Sixth St)
Barbara Probst: Subjective Evidence and Chip Thomas and the Painted Desert Project

Lloyd Library & Museum (917 Plum St)
Madeleine Hordinski: The Lore of the Pawpaw

Michael Lowe Gallery (905 Vine St)
Blank Generation: Downtown New York 1970s-80s

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (50 E Freedom Way)
Alphonso Wesson: Excavated: From Soil to Stars

Studio Kroner (130 W Court St)
Casey LeClair: Moving Parts

Taft Museum of Art (316 Pike St)
Posing Beauty in African American Culture

OTR & PENDLETON 

Wash Park Art Gallery (1215 Elm St)
CONCEPT and CODA: Lydia Masset and Ron Hoffman

Art Academy of Cincinnati (1212 Jackson St)
Chidlaw Gallery: Student Reflections
McClure Gallery: Contested Ground
Pearlman Gallery: Deeply Rooted
SITE1212: Digressions, Humphrey Gets His Flowers, and Another First Impression

Iris BookCafe and Gallery (1331 Main St)
Afterwords: 50 Years in Words and Images by Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Main Street Shop & Studio (1342 Main St)
Elisa Fay: I Hate You I Love You

Art Beyond Boundaries Gallery (1410 Main St)
In Pursuit of Empathy

Gallery at 1435 Main (1435 Main St)
Rollin’ in Rhythm

The Annex Gallery (1310 Pendleton St, Annex Building)
Willy Castellanos: Exodus. Alternate Documents (1994–2024) and Through A Stranger’s Eyes

Over-the-Rhine Museum (3 W McMicken Ave)
Snapshots of Over-the-Rhine

Solway Gallery (424 Findlay St)
John E. Dowell: Pathways to Freedom

Woodward Theatre (1404 Main St)
Caribbean Eye: Auteur Cinema from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic

WALNUT HILLS, CLIFTON, & EDEN PARK 

Esquire Theatre Gallery (320 Ludlow Ave)
Casey LeClair: Nightlife in Renderville

Clifton Cultural Arts Center (3412 Clifton Ave)
Generations

DAAP Galleries:: Reed Gallery (DAAP Aronoff Building RM 5275, 2624 Clifton Ave)
Cultural Exchange:: Still Moving and Cultural Exchange:: Who is American Today? 

Off Ludlow Gallery (3408 Ormond Ave)
Tina Gutierrez: Kindred Spirits

DAAP Library (DAAP Aronoff Building RM 5480, 2624 Clifton Ave)
Posteriors: Sitters’ Backs in 19th-Century Photography

DAAP Galleries:: Meyers Gallery (Steger Student Life Center RM 418, 500 UC Main St)
Cultural Exchange:: What Remains: A Contemporary Interpretation of Native American Earthworks in The Ohio Valley

Cincy Nice at Peebles Gallery (2411 Gilbert Ave)
Prince Lang: Person, Place, Thing

Century Design Workshop (2449 Gilbert Ave)
Amber N. Ford: Roads Most Traveled

ArtWorks V2 Gallery (929 E McMillan St)
Chiaroscuro

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library: Walnut Hills Branch (2533 Kemper Ln)
More than Meets the Eye: Multimedia Narratives that Connect Generations and Cultures

ArtWorks Off-Site Mural (Easterseals Redwood, 2901 Gilbert Ave)
Inhabited: Stories of the Past

Manifest Gallery (2727 Woodburn Ave)
CORPUS: Exploring the Power of the Physical Photograph

Cincinnati Art Museum (953 Eden Park Dr)
Discovering Ansel Adams

NORTHSIDE, WEST SIDE, & WEST END

Cincinnati Museum Center (1301 Western Ave)
Lens of History: Celebration of People, Spaces, and Emotion
“Capturing Life” (1839–1869) (Reakirt Auditorium)

Archive of Creative Culture (2930 Sidney Ave)
Lacey Haslam: The Sidney Project

The Well (2868 Colerain Ave)
Sona and Soma

FLAG Studio (2922 Colerain Ave)
Got it on Tape

Various Locations for Artist Run (Wave Pool, 2940 Colerain Ave)
Artist Run: The Continuing Legacy of Cincinnati’s Artist-Run Spaces

Wave Pool (2940 Colerain Ave)
A Thousand Words

The Welcome Project (2939 Colerain Ave)
Defend the Sacred: A Photography Exhibit Exploring the Sacred in Black and Indigenous Communities

Manifest Drawing Center (3464 Central Pkwy)
Pick It Up, Turn It Over: Exploring the Power of the Physical Photograph

Visionaries and Voices (3841 Spring Grove Ave)
Flowers in the Sidewalk

PAR-Projects: Gallery at Studeō PAR- (1646 Hoffner St)
Don’t Just Talk About It, Be About It

Ruth’s Parkside Cafe (1550 Blue Rock St)
Duality

Mount St. Joseph University: Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery (5701 Delhi Rd)
as it was meant to be told: AAPI Artists on Selfhood and Belonging

BasketShop (3105 Harrison Ave)
interior ruin

NORTH & EAST CINCINNATI

Xavier University Art Galleries (1658 Musketeer Dr)
Behind the Curtain and What Came Before

Miller Gallery (2715 Erie Ave)
Kimball Derrick: My Book of Life—The Preface

Kennedy Heights Arts Center (6546 Montgomery Rd)
Gee Horton: Chapter 2, A Subtle Farewell to the Inner Child

Woman’s Art Club of Cincinnati: The Barn (6980 Cambridge Ave)
Nina Wells: King Me – Continued

Eisele Gallery (6936 Madisonville Rd)
Tina Gutierrez: Illumination

University of Cincinnati Clermont College Art Gallery (4200 Clermont College Dr)
Judi Bommarito: Reclaiming Your Outside Voice

Evendale Cultural Arts Center (10428 Reading Rd)
Eric Hatch: Hard Times for These Times and Behind the Lens: Unveiling the Unseen Narratives 

NORTHERN KENTUCKY 

Behringer-Crawford Museum (1600 Montague Rd, Devou Park)
Mark Schlachter: Familiar Faces

The Carnegie (1028 Scott St, Covington, KY)
Southern Democratic

I.imagine at Roebling Point Books and Coffee (601 Overton St, Newport, KY)
Off Track

The Lodge KY (231 6th Ave, Dayton, KY)
Hunting Island

Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts Gallery (1 Louie B. Nunn Dr, Fine Arts Center, Highland Heights, KY)
Marissa Nicole Stewart: Call Me When You Get Home

Purple People Bridge (1 Levee Way, Newport, KY)
More than Meets the Eye: An Immersive Display of Narrative Power through Photos

OXFORD AND HAMILTON 

Fitton Center for Creative Arts (101 S Monument Ave, Hamilton, OH)
We > Me: 17 Artists Explore Hamilton Neighborhoods

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum (1763 Hamilton Cleves Rd, Hamilton, OH)
Meryl McMaster: Stories of the Infinite Sky, Stories of the Land, and Jo Whaley: The Theater of Nature

Miami University: Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum (801 S Patterson Ave, Oxford, OH )
Through Their Lens: Freedom Summer Photographers

Miami University: Performing Arts Quad (420 S Patterson Ave, Oxford, OH)
Convening Stories at the Crossroads